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Nathu La beckons

The mountain pass between Sikkim and the Tibet Autonomous Region reopens for trade with China.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on December 3.-PRAKASH SINGH/AFP

Firming up a friendship

Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Indian leadership reiterate the two countries' resolve to cooperate in areas of common concern. And it become

Building bridges to the East

AMIT BARUAH recently in Bali, Bangkok and Chiang Mai

AMIT BARUAH recently in Bali, Bangkok and Chiang Mai

Discussing democracy

The United Nations' special envoy to Myanmar holds out the promise of progress in the talks between the military junta and the National League for Dem

AMIT BARUAH in Singapore

Talking Asia

Thailand paves the way for the Asia Cooperation Dialogue forum. Will it form the missing link in regional cooperation?

AMIT BARUAH in Cha-am

Myanmar's stalemate

Myanmar's military junta seems set against democratic change despite a failing economy, pressure from outside the country and rumblings within its ran

AMIT BARUAH in Singapore

An exercise in intervention

The joint "exercise" by the U.S. and Philippine troops on the Basilan island in the Philippines raises a wave of criticism against President Gloria Ma

AMIT BARUAH in Singapore

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan addresses the International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan in Tokyo on January 21. Others, from left, are Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Afghanistan's Interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.-DAVID GUTTENFELDER/AP

A revival package

The $4.5-billion aid promised by donor-states at the Tokyo Conference, though inadequate, will enable the war-ravaged Afghanistan to start the process

AMIT BARUAH in Tokyo

Dealing with Misuari

Manila's inability to play straight in the matter of deporting Muslim rebel leader Nur Misuari indicates that it is still not clear on how to tackle s

AMIT BARUAH in Singapore

Including India

Finding itself isolated, Malaysia gives up its opposition to an ASEAN-India summit meeting.

AMIT BARUAH in Bandar Seri Begawan

A new APEC agenda

The APEC meeting of world leaders in Shanghai is overshadowed by the U.S. campaign against terrorism, leaving economic issues on the back burner.

AMIT BARUAH in Shanghai

August 2001: Afghan asylum-seekers clutch plastic bags containing their belongings as they wait in line to board buses after arriving in Nauru.

Refugees and politics

The John Howard government's decision to turn away a group of Afghan asylum-seekers, made with an eye on the coming elections, prompts criticism from

AMIT BARUAH,recently in Sydney

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